Preface
The present volume owes its genesis to my good friend and publisher, Mr. Bernard Scharfstein, who saw the need for a one-volume study of the history of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism.

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Introduction
This book provides an outline of the history of Judaism during the all-important era of its postbiblical development, from the last years of the biblical period until the arrival of the consensus we know as Talmudic Judaism.